The National Weather Service now says 12-tornadoes ripped through the region last Wednesday.
Field assessment teams updated the count Tuesday after compiling damage reports from across the quad state. The National Weather Service says there were 5-EF1 tornadoes, 5-EF2 tornadoes, 1-EF3 tornado and 1-EF4 tornado.
The strongest twister took 6-lives as it roared through Saline and Gallatin Counties destroying numerous homes and businesses in Harrisburg and Ridgeway. The EF-4 tornado and it's 180-mile an hour top winds left a path of destruction nearly 27-miles long and 275-yards wide.
An EF-3 tornado hit Stoddard County, Missouri resulting in 1 fatality. The twister produced maximum wind speeds of 140 mph and left a path of destruction almost 21 miles long and 550-yards wide.
Five, EF-2 tornadoes damaged 100's of homes and businesses and brought down trees and power lines in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Jackson and Williamson Counties in southern Illinois, and Ballard and McCracken Counties in western Kentucky.
Five, EF-1 tornadoes damages 100's of homes, farms, and recreational areas in Scott and Bollinger Counties in southeast Missouri, Henderson and Muhlenberg Counties in Kentucky, and Warrick County in Indiana.
The National Weather Service also reports a down-burst uprooted hundreds of trees in Jackson and Williamson Counties around Devil's Kitchen Lake.
